Pete Buttigieg: Trump's 'hypocrisy needs to be called out,' socialist criticisms 'losing all meaning'
Pete Buttigieg, the youthful mayor of South Bend, Indiana, whose presidential exploratory committee has attracted a surge of interest in recent weeks coinciding with a steady rise in the polls, defended his past criticisms of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence during an appearance on ABC's"Good Morning America" Thursday, while pushing back on Republican efforts to label recent Democratic proposals as 'socialist.
"It needs to be called out forcefully," the mayor added."But we need to be factual and we need to be honest and we do, in resolving all of this disagreement, need to be decent as well." — Pete Buttigieg April 4, 2019 “We’ve listened as you’ve shared your stories and your ideas, your visions for our future and your expectations for your political future, and it’s clear people want a new direction for America,” Buttigieg says. “But it’s not just about winning an election, it’s about winning an era.”
"The Affordable Care Act was a conservative idea that Democrats borrowed and they called that 'socialist.' So it's kind of like the boy who cried wolf," Buttigieg continued."It's lost all power I think, especially for my generation of voters. Folks just want to know whether an idea is a good idea or not and slapping a label on it, especially in a careless way that doesn't make any sense, I don't think it moves the debate.
Story continuesThe interview on"Good Morning America" and the announcement of next week's event coincides with the mayor’s emergence from relative obscurity. He’s parlayed a string of high-profile interviews and appearances into a place among the upper-tier of candidates in the Democratic primary. “Our first hurdle was simple,” Buttigieg says, leading into a graphic of the phoenetic spelling of his last name as clips of incorrect attempts to say it play in the background.
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